Formation of IPv6 Task Forces

An IPv6 Task Force is a nonprofit working group whose purpose is to coordinate efforts to promote the deployment of IPv6 in a country or region.

In order for it to be a true "task force,” it should be made up of representatives of the overall society; that is, it should include government bodies, the academic community, private institutions, service operators and providers, regulators, equipment manufacturers, members of NICs, IXs, and users in general.

The IPv6 Task Force for the Latin American and Caribbean Region is already formed and active. Its purpose is to promote the adoption of IPv6 in the region. The LAC IPv6 TF coordinates cooperation to that end among the various parties involved, in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as activities promoting public awareness and education on IPv6 and related technologies (http://www.lac.ipv6tf.org).

It is considered highly important for the deployment of the new protocol that each country in the region have its own IPv6 Task Force. Various countries have already formed them, including Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Panama, Cuba, and Mexico.

According to the LAC IPv6 Task Force, the recommended steps for a country that has not yet formed its IPv6 Task Force are as follows:

A group of volunteers who have decided to form their country’s IPv6 TF notifies the LACNIC to that effect and organizes an initial, in-person meeting, at which operating rules and statutes are adopted and the group’s executive committee or similar body is established.

In the interest of open and transparent preparations for this meeting, the volunteers should conduct the initial organizing through the LAC IPv6 TF mailing list ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>).

Once the first constituent meeting has been held, the necessary steps will be taken through LACNIC to set up the new IPv6 TF’s own web page and mailing lists, still under the pais.ipv6tf.org domain, or to delegate the corresponding subdomain to servers identified for that purpose. (These servers MUST be reached both through IPv4 and through IPv6).

From then on, internal coordination of each national IPv6 TF will be handled through the mailing list created under the new subdomain. It will only interact with the LAC IPv6 TF when it wishes to do so on behalf of the recently created IPv6 TF.

Oscar Messano
Rapporteur Group on issues relative
to Internet resources